Improvement in churns



JOHN G-E1GER,0F PEO'RIA. COUNTY,QILLIN0|IS. Letters-.Patent No. 88,289, dated Yll/[a/rch 30, V1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

*wom- Be it known that I, J OHN GEIGER, of the county of Peoria, and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Churn for Making Butter, which I verily believe is fully described in the following specification; and I do hereby declare that the following is a` full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference beinghad to the annexed drawings, making a pait of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2, a vertical section.

Figure 3, a plan or superficial view.

In the drawings', like letters refer to like parts.

1 now proceed to describe the construction of this churn.

The churn Aconsists of an ordinary cylindrical reservoir, or frustum of a cone, for ordinary purposes, about sixteen inches deep, by ten inches diameter at top, and thirteen inches diameter at bottom.

The dashers F G H I are set on the vertical shaft E, at right angles to it and to eachother. Theymay be about two inches wide and about one-half inch thick, and long enough to reach to Within a short distance of the sides of the churn. I

The face of each alternate dasher is inclined at a diii'erent angleto its neighbor. Thus the face of the dasher marked F, is set into the shaft E at an angle of about forty-five degrees from vertical. The n'ext one, G, has the same obliquity, but precisely an opposite inclination, or at a Aright angle to the plaire of the irst dasher above mentioned, F. So alternately with each dasher, of which I prefer to have four, F G H I.

The upper and lower edges of each' dasher, I cut v vertically", (see G, iig. 2,) as seen at letters It and l.` I

also set the opposite dashers G I, a little distance lower on the shaft E, that the following-dashers, F and H,

meet the surge, or spray raised by the lower, and preceding dashers G I.

To increase the action of the churning-process, 1in-- sert the cutter`s, or teeth a b e d, in the face of each of the lower dashers G I, and which are to facilitate the division of the creamy particles from the buttermilk.`

The shaft is operated by proper gearing, attached to the surface of the churn-cover B, and may be composed of a larger, n, mitre-wheel as a motor, and a'smaller one, o, attached to the projecting upper end of the shaft, above the cover B.

The latter may be removed from the churn, to remove the butter, by uuhooking the two hooks fj, thus removing the gearing and box, with the cover, and th shaft, with its dashers.

rIhe operation of this churn needs very little description. The butter is produced in the course of ten minutes, bythe peculiar construction of the dashers and cutters.

The large current, or spray forced up bythe dashers producing a thorough separation of the buttery particles from theV cream.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In ahuru, the combination of Jthe cutters al b d e on the lower dashers, with the horizontal oblique dashers F G H I, set on a vertical shaft, each alternate dasher having its face at right angles to the face -of and a little above the plane of the face of its forerunning` dasher, as and for the purposes described. y

f JOHN GEIGER.

Witnesses:

J AcoB T. FORRER, WILLIAM L. Moss, Jr. 

